Tag Archives: Emacs

Ten Tips for Getting Started With Emacs

Posted on 2020-04-03 by jcs

Over at Opensource.com, Seth Kenlon an interesting post on 10 tips for getting started with Emacs. There are a couple of items I disagree with but most of the post is good advice. His first piece of advice is to … Continue reading →

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Using Notion as a Zettelkasten

Posted on 2020-04-01 by jcs

The other day I was checking Ali Abdaal’s You Tube feed for new videos and I happened to see an older video that I’d watched earlier. It was about how Abdaal uses Notion as a resonance calendar. When I first … Continue reading →

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Implementing a Zettelkasten with Org Mode

Posted on 2020-03-30 by jcs

In a perfect example of the Baader-Meinhoff Phenomenon, a month ago I had never heard of the the term Zettelkasten and now it seems to be everywhere I look. Previously, I wrote about the idea and noted that it was … Continue reading →

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A Repository for Writing a Thesis With Org Mode

Posted on 2020-03-29 by jcs

Back in 2018, I wrote about a post by Daniel Gomez that describes how to use Org-mode for writing a thesis. At the time, Gomez was in the process of writing his own thesis and his post details his work … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 70: Org Protocol

Posted on 2020-03-28 by jcs

If you’ve been following Irreal for a while, you know that I periodically try to get Org Protocol integrated into my workflow and end up writing a post on how I failed yet again. The last such post was just … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 69: Floobits

Posted on 2020-03-22 by jcs

One of the questions I often see is, “how can I collaborate in real time with Emacs?” This may be because a couple of programmers want to do some remote pair programming or because two or more people want to … Continue reading →

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Migrating from Emacs to Doom

Posted on 2020-03-21 by jcs

Jethro Kuan, whom I wrote about in regards to his work with smart notes, has another interesting post. This time it’s about his migration to Doom Emacs. There’s nothing unusual about that of course; I’ve written several posts about such … Continue reading →

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Interactive SQL Queries With Org-mode

Posted on 2020-03-19 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) always has interesting posts that often give me good ideas. Recently, he posted on using Org-mode for SQL. I haven’t had to deal with SQL for a long time and I was never a heavy user so … Continue reading →

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Elfeed and Goto-address

Posted on 2020-03-17 by jcs

The other day I was reading an Elfeed entry and wanted to follow a link so with the point on the link, I typed Ctrl+c Ctrl+o as usual. Nothing happened. In Elfeed you can click on a link or press … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 68: Tramp and Org-publish

Posted on 2020-03-16 by jcs

Mike Zamansky is back with another video in his Using Emacs Series. This video discusses maintaining a simple Web site with Emacs and Org-mode. Usually when I write about this sort of thing, it’s in the context of publishing to … Continue reading →

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